Translation of "Océan Austral " (French → English) :

E. whereas the original Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) group which launched the negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union on 7 February 2004 comprised 16 countries, which include Indian Ocean Islands (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles), Horn of Africa countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan), the East African Community (EAC) members (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and Southern African countries (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe); whereas only six of these 16 countries have initialled the ‘ESA’ interim EPA, of which two have decided not to sign (Zambia and Comoros), t ...[+++]wo have notified provisional implementation (Mauritius and Madagascar) and only two have ratified (Zimbabwe and Seychelles);

D. whereas the original Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) group that launched the negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union on 7 February 2004 comprised 16 countries, which include Indian Ocean Islands (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles), Horn of Africa countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan), the East African Community (EAC) members (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and Southern African countries (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe);

On 7 February 2004, the original Eastern and South Africa (ESA) group that launched negotiations on the EPAs with the EU comprised 16 countries, including Indian Ocean islands (Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles), countries from the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan), the East African Community (EAC) members (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and some countries of Southern Africa (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe).

You may ask if it will continue to be available for use on a priority basis by the Canadian Coast Guard, given that it might not maintain a Canadian registry, and will frequently be deployed in the southern ocean, tens of thousands of kilometres away from Canada's north.

39. Welcomes the entry into force in December 2001 of the UN Fish Stocks Agreement, which was called for in Agenda 21; urges those Member States that have so far failed to complete their ratification procedures to do so before the Johannesburg summit, and further calls on the Council to support the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition demand for a moratorium on all toothfish fishing in the Southern Ocean, which is currently decimating the main fishery (Patagonian toothfish) as well as impacting upon birdlife;

In the Indian Ocean there is Mayotte to the east of southern Africa (45º E/12º S) and Réunion (55º E/20º S) and to the very south the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.